Locating a weldment profile

- [Instructor] In this example I'm going to show you…how to locate a weldment profile.…Now you can see here I've got this…square or rectangular section of a weldment here.…And it's using the center of this shape…as its path for creating the weldment profile.…Now I'm going to go ahead and go ahead and change that…so go over here to the feature itself.…Click on Edit Feature, and you can see here…we're using the center point of that sketch.…So if we zoom in here on that sketch,…you can see we've got a bunch of these lines…we've created, which is nice.…

So I can come down here and click on Locate Profile.…Click on that one there.…And then what it's asking for or looking for now…is for me to click on a new point.…So if I click on this little point over here…notice it automatically moves the material up…and it uses that bottom corner to lie along…these line here, which creates that profile.…If again I wanted to change something else…it's pretty easy to do.…Just go back over here, click on Locate Profile again,…and choose one of these other profiles.…

Resume Transcript Auto-Scroll

Author

Released

9/26/2017

Prepare for the Certified SOLIDWORKS Professional Advanced Weldments (CSWPA-WD) exam. Earning the CSWPA-WD certification shows proof of expertise—the type of the cutting-edge skills that businesses seek out and reward. This course prepares you to ace the exam, and stand out from the crowd in today's competitive job market.

Join Gabriel Corbett as he reviews the exam requirements, along with testing techniques and tips to make more effective use of your time. He refreshes your knowledge of fundamentals such as creating and saving weldment profiles, building sketches, trimming and extending weldments, applying corner treatments, and creating end caps and gussets. He also covers advanced weldment creation, profile alignment, and weldment cut lists. Last, but not least, he reviews questions from a sample exam and provides pointers for measuring parts correctly and verifying the unit system.